Leonida Scales

Leonida Scales (2 October 1818-14 May 1891) was a general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Leonida Scales was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on 2 October 1818 to a family of landed gentry, and his family owned a plantation with slaves. Scales joined the US Army in 1841 after graduating from West Point, and he served in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848. Scales rose to the rank of Major during the 1850s, and he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the Tennessee state militia during the American Civil War. Scales would rise to the rank of Brigadier-General during the war, commanding a regiment of troops during the war. After the war, Scales became a lawyer in Nashville, where he died in 1891.